About the Foundation ...
Foundation Organisation
The Howard Foundation Group of Companies is based upon intellectual
property owned by the Howard Foundation and is managed by Howard Foundation
Holdings Limited, a UK
company.
Until September 2005, the Group owned Cambridge
Manufacturing Company Limited, which manufactures and distributes
"The Cambridge Diet" throughout the UK and worldwide through a
chain of international companies.
The Foundation currently holds patents in the fields of red wine
polyphenols, creatine compounds and products and equipment that can protect
against age-related macular degeneration and promote eye health. Licences
have been granted across the world in respect of these nutriceuticals.
Recent and Future Activities
- Support
for the Howard Foundation Chair of Human Nutrition at the University
of Ulster.
- In
association with Teeside
University, a
series of evidence-based trials of weight management programmes in the
primary care environment.
- Funds
for clinical trials involving red wine polyphenols at the University of Ulster
and Poznan University,
Poland.
- Funds
for the International University of Florida for a clinical trial involving
prevention of aged related macular degeneration through nutritional
supplementation of macular carotenoids.
- Purchase
of scientific equipment and funds for research on creatine for the
University college, Chichester.
- Donation
of scientific equipment for laboratories and funds in support of a new
Chair of Medical Sciences at Poznan
University, Poland.
- Toxicology
and efficiacy trials in respect of the ocular nutriceutical
Mesozeaxanthin through private laboratories in United States and the Waterford Group
in Eire.
- Clinical
Trials into carotenoids conducted by Waterford Institute of
Technology.
- Grants
to Gordon Conferences.
- Organisation
of Creatine Conference, see www.creatineconference2010.org
- Organisation
of Conference for Optometrists, see www.amdforoptometrists.org
- Organisation
for Conference on Carotenoids and Macular Pigments, see www.macularcarotenoids.org
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